Edward Everett Horton
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.
Known for
Credits
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
as The Chief
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Mr. Dinckler
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Mr. Witherspoon
Top Hat (1935)
as Horace Hardwick
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
as Hudgins
Lost Horizon (1937)
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
as Noble Sage
Holiday (1938)
as Nick Potter
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Mad Hatter
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
as Francois
Shall We Dance (1937)
as Jeffrey Baird
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
as Messenger 7013
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
as Egbert Fitzgerald
Down to Earth (1947)
as Messenger 7013
Cold Turkey (1971)
as Hiram C. Grayson
The Gang's All Here (1943)
as Peyton Potter
The Front Page (1931)
as Bensinger
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Ambassador Popoff
The Story of Mankind (1957)
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Design for Living (1933)
as Max Plunkett
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Uncertain Lady (1934)
as Elliot Crane
Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1938)
as Marquis De Loiselle
Forever and a Day (1943)
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
In Caliente (1935)
as Harold Brandon
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
as Farnsworth
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
as J.B. Cruikshank
Angel (1937)
as Graham
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Flapper Wives (1924)
as Vincent Platt
Her Primitive Man (1944)
as Orrin
Bachelor Daddy (1941)
as Joseph Smith
Oh, Doctor (1937)
as Edward J. Billop
Lady on a Train (1945)
as Mr. Haskell
The Gang's All Here (1939)
as Treadwell
Summer Storm (1944)
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
as Caspar Coleman
Holiday (1930)
as Nick Potter
His Night Out (1935)
as Homer B. Bitts
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Nobody's Fool (1936)
as Will Wright
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
as McTavish
Her Master's Voice (1936)
as Ned Farrar
Scrambled Weddings (1928)
as Eddie Howe
College Swing (1938)
as Hubert Dash
You're the One (1941)
as Death Valley Joe Frink
The Nut-Cracker (1926)
as Horatio Slipaway
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
as Paul Vernet
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
as Horace Hunter
The Great Garrick (1937)
as Tubby
The Night Is Young (1935)
as Baron Szereny
Cinderella Jones (1946)
as Keating
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
as Self
The Singing Kid (1936)
as Davenport Rogers
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
as Howard Rogers
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
as Roger, the Valet
Brazil (1944)
as Everett St. John Everett
The Town Went Wild (1944)
as Everett Conway
The Way to Love (1933)
as Professor Gaston Bibi
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
as Sir George Kelvin
A Front Page Story (1922)
as Rodney Marvin
The Aviator (1929)
as Robert Street
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Mr. Grattan
Smarty (1934)
as Vernon
Try and Get It (1924)
as Glenn Collins
Helen's Babies (1924)
as Uncle Harry
Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
as Dudley Dixon
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
as Hiram Dilworthy
Horse Shy (1928)
as Eddie Hamilton
Smart Woman (1931)
as Billy Ross
Sunny (1941)
as Henry Bates
The Terror (1928)
as Ferdinand Fane
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
as Ernest Figg
The Poor Rich (1934)
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Success at Any Price (1934)
as Harry Fisher
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Mortimer Thompson
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Victor Dubois
The Body Disappears (1941)
as Professor Shotesbury
I Married an Angel (1942)
as Peter
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
as Monty Winston
Hearts Divided (1936)
as John
San Diego I Love You (1944)
as Philip McCooley
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
as Marcel Caron
It's a Boy (1934)
as Dudley Leake
Too Much Business (1922)
as John Henry Jackson
Sonny Boy (1929)
as Crandall Thorpe
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
as Eric
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
as Neil McRae
Roar of the Dragon (1932)
as Busby
Going Highbrow (1935)
as Augie Winterspoon
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
The Age for Love (1931)
as Horace Keats
Wide Open (1930)
as Simon Haldane
Easy to Love (1934)
as Eric
Kiss Me Again (1931)
as Rene
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
as Tom Village
Lonely Wives (1931)
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
La Bohème (1926)
as Benoit - Janitor
Sing and Like It (1934)
as Adam Frink - Producer
2000 Years Later (1969)
as Evermore
Let's Make a Million (1936)
as Harrison Gentry
Behind the Counter (1928)
as Eddie Baxter
Steppin' in Society (1945)
as Judge Avery Webster
The Wonderful World of Trains (1960)
as Professor Hotbox
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
The Man in the Mirror (1936)
as Jeremy Dilke
All the King's Horses (1935)
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
Weekend for Three (1941)
as Fred Stonebraker
Hitting a New High (1937)
as Lucius B. Blynn
The Ladder Jinx (1922)
as Arthur Barnes
The Hottentot (1929)
as Sam Harrington
Wild Money (1937)
as P.E. Dodd
$10 Raise (1935)
as Hubert T. Wilkins
Soldiers of the King (1933)
as Sebastian Marvello
Taxi! Taxi! (1927)
as Peter Whitby
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
as Bob Alten
The Sap (1929)
as The Sap, Bill Small
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
as Oliver
The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
as The Groom
Once a Gentleman (1930)
as Oliver
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956)
as Noah
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
as Ruggles
Find the King (1927)
as Edward Fairchild
Dad's Choice (1928)
as Eddie
Poker Faces (1926)
as Jimmy Whitmore
Three Men on a Horse (1957)
as Mr. Carver
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)
as Dr. Milo Edwards
To the Ladies (1924)
as Leonard Beebe
One Got Fat (1963)
as Narrator (voice)
The Private Secretary (1935)
as Rev. Robert Spalding
Take the Heir (1930)
as Smithers
The Whole Town's Talking (1926)
as Chester Binney
No Publicity (1927)
as Eddie Howard
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake (1964)
as Narrator
Call Again (1928)
as Eddie
The Right Bed (—)
as Bobby Kent
Ask Dad (1929)
as Dad
Vacation Waves (1928)
as Eddie Davis